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Eighteenth Century Furniture in South Africa – G. E. Pearse (Signed by Author)
Eighteenth Century Furniture in South Africa – G. E. Pearse (Signed by Author)
Eighteenth Century Furniture in South Africa – G. E. Pearse (Signed by Author)
Eighteenth Century Furniture in South Africa – G. E. Pearse (Signed by Author)
Eighteenth Century Furniture in South Africa – G. E. Pearse (Signed by Author)
Eighteenth Century Furniture in South Africa – G. E. Pearse (Signed by Author)
Eighteenth Century Furniture in South Africa – G. E. Pearse (Signed by Author)

Eighteenth Century Furniture in South Africa – G. E. Pearse (Signed by Author)

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EXCELLENT CONDITION SECOND HAND

Van Schaik, 1960

Hardcover, 193 pages, Illustrated throughout with mono photographs and scale furniture plans

Folio; original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; Dust jacket in excellent condition; 

This book is written as a companion volume to my Eighteenth Century Architecture in South Africa. In it I have endeavoured to trace the development of furniture in South Africa, and to indicate the sources of the influences responsible for that development. During the period involved the burghers in Cape Town and the wealthy farmers in the country districts built lovely homes, many of which have been preserved, and filled them with beautiful pieces of furniture, silverware, china and glass. The standard of taste both in Holland and England, the countries with which the settlement at the Cape was most closely associated was, at the time, exceptionally high. Most of the pieces of furniture illustrated were made of South African wood in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries